The front: Nice photo of Doyle at Yankee Stadium, with an ad
for Getty Oil clearly visible behind him. At the time Getty was one of the
leading gas station chains in the Northeast; they are pretty much all gone now.
I should probably be on the lookout for Getty remnants for a wallet-card post.
While looking up Getty for this post I learned that at the time this photo was
taken, the company actually owned ESPN.
The back: Doyle was a long-time minor league veteran, what
today would be called a AAAA player.
The player: As a rookie for the Yankees in 1978, Doyle hit
just .192 in the regular season, but .286 in the ALCS and an incredible .438 in
the World Series, as he picked the perfect time to have the one hot streak of
his career. That .192 regular season mark was actually his career high; in
parts of three more major league seasons he never hit above .173 as first the
Yankees and then the A’s waited unsuccessfully for him to recapture his magic
from October 1978.
The man: Doyle has had a long career in baseball instruction
and the ministry. He is currently National Director of the Global Youth
Baseball Federation. In 1994 Doyle was diagnosed with leukemia and given six
months to live. Doyle survived, but he is now struggling with Parkinson’s disease,
a battle the New York Daily News profiled in 2015.
My collection: I have five of his cards, from 1979 to 1981.
I would be interested in trading for 1980 TCMA Columbus Clippers #13.
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